To:A. M. ANIKST

Published:First published in 1942 in LeninMiscellany XXXIV.

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ComradeAnikst,

Pleasearrange for tomorrow a conference with
representatives of:

Working-garmentssupply organisation

CentralCoal Administration

andChuso[1]and Central Garments Administration to
investigate (in accordance with Comrade Trotsky’s telegram
No. 69/5 of 20/XI-20) the reasons why the Council of
Labour and Defence decision on supply to
Donbas[2]has not
been fulfilled, and to take urgent measures for the earliest
fulfilment of the
assignment.[3]

V.Ulyanov(Lenin)Chairman, Council of Labour and Defence

[1]Chusosnabarm—ExtraordinaryRepresentative of the Council of
Defence for Red Army and Navy Supplies.—Ed.

[2]Areference to the decision of the Council of Labour and Defence
of October 8, 1920, concerning the supply of clothes to the
Donbas miners.

[3]Ata sitting on November 24, 1920, the Council o? Labour and
Defence set up a Provisional Conference, consisting ofrepresentatives of the People’s Commissariat for Food, the Supreme
Economic Council, the People’s Commissariat for Defence, the
Chusosnabarm (Extraordinary Representative of the Council of Defence
for Red Army and Navy Supplies), the People’s Commissariat
for Railways, the All-Russia Central Trade Union Council, and
the Central Committee of the Miners’ Union, and assigned it the
task of supervising the regular and urgent supply of
everything necessary to restart, the coal industry in the Donets Basin.